Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expressi…

Laini Taylor
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Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat? ✨ Laini Taylor (2011). Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy, p.50, Hachette UK
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